Analytics code

[finid]

What's the best method of adding Piwik analytics code too footer.tpl so that is remains there after the next and subsequent upgrades.

[psychobunny]

Widgets

If you're on Vanilla, create a new HTML widget and drag it to the Homepage Footer (home.tpl / footer), paste in your analytics code (script tags included) and hit save. Should work

[finid]

@psychobunny

I'm on Lavendar.

On Vanilla, is that Home page footer specific to the home page, or is it site-wide?

[psychobunny]

It's specific to the homepage, I'll be adding site-wide widget areas before 0.4x hits (did you need this on all pages?)

[finid]

@psychobunny

Piwik is an Open Source analytics application just like Google Analytics, so, yes, it'd be better to have it in a global footer template file. Initially I put it in Lavendar's footer.tpl, but it got wiped with each upgrade.

[psychobunny]

Okay, hang tight. I'll make sure I get something like that soon!

[julian]

Now that we have a widgets system, technically we could put all sorts of things in there. I'm thinking the Google Analytics plugin could be deprecated altogether.

[finid]

@julian

True, but for something line Analytics code, the widget has to be global. Perhaps, there should be a footer widget, header widget, and any number of sidebar widgets.

[kelso]

That piwik looks promising! See any issues with running it side by side with google analytics? I use adwords and adsense integrated, so I dont want to lose that functionality.

[finid]

@kelso

There should be no issues. They are both separate codes. I use Piwik and Quancast on LinuxBSDos.